Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna and Kevin
Speaker 1: an iHeartRadio podcast really missed Welcome to you. No Jenna, No,
Speaker 1: this is and that's what you really missed the Glee
Speaker 1: Rewatch podcast. I'm Jenna, I'm Kevin, and this week we
Speaker 1: are talking about season one episode sixteen, Home Home, directed
Speaker 1: by Paris Barclay, his second episode of season one that
Speaker 1: he directs. It's very exciting. I love Paris. It originally
Speaker 1: aired on April twenty seventh, twenty ten, the day before
Speaker 1: my twenty fourth birthday. Oh my god, it was so
Speaker 1: long ago, and the day before Harry's twenty eight. That's right,
Speaker 1: and so Jenna, Jenna and Harry have the same birthday,
Speaker 1: along with many other people that I know. Is a
Speaker 1: very popular day for twenty It's very popular. Okay, the
Speaker 1: number one do anything for your birthday? We went to
Speaker 1: were you there? We went to Tokyo delve Um. It's
Speaker 1: a sushi restaurant in North Hollywood and they have like
Speaker 1: dancers that dress up like and they sing sync and
Speaker 1: they lit like yeah exactly yeah, and we got a
Speaker 1: sushi boat and Telly was there. I think you were there, Kevin.
Speaker 1: I think I was and it's it was just really
Speaker 1: fun and low key. So that was you, um, what
Speaker 1: was going on in the world. The number one song
Speaker 1: was nothing on You? How does that? Bob? Nothing on You?
Speaker 1: Oh right, okay, nothing You? Oh you? And this was
Speaker 1: Bob's I think it was his first single and Bruno Mars.
Speaker 1: Oh really yes, and this was a big thing for
Speaker 1: Bruno Mars. Yeah, How to Train Your Dragon was the
Speaker 1: number one movie in the country. I have seen that. UM.
Speaker 1: The day before this episode came out, we went to
Speaker 1: UM evening with Glee, a special screening and panel for
Speaker 1: the Television Academy and North Hollywood. Do you remember that.
Speaker 1: I remember going to that big, long panel. We talked
Speaker 1: about the show was moderated, we talked about lots of
Speaker 1: fun stuff, and then at the end of it, all
Speaker 1: the people who are there who could buy tickets come
Speaker 1: bum rushing the stage and I remember thinking like feeling like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, all these people want our autograph and
Speaker 1: our photos. It was like overwhelming. It was pretty crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and this was also our first TV Academy event. So
Speaker 1: you do these things, you hope that TV Academy members
Speaker 1: are in the audience, and so therefore you know the
Speaker 1: aspiration is that we get nominated for Emmy's Coming Out. Yes, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: so this one is a lot of guest stars. We
Speaker 1: have Christian Channowith, John Gruff, Romi Rose momd and Mike O'Malley.
Speaker 1: Oh what a great stacked lineup of guest stars. Curly,
Speaker 1: we are so so lucky. There's a couple of fun
Speaker 1: facts about this episode. Okay, this, um, this is this
Speaker 1: one isn't fun. There's no jama that's not fun. We
Speaker 1: need jamak. But it's the first episode where the title
Speaker 1: is the actual name of a song. There's the first
Speaker 1: episode where there wasn't like a Rachel centric storyline. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's crazy. And already we are at our one hundredth performance.
Speaker 1: Good lord, Yeah, crazy beautiful. When Amber sings Beautiful towards
Speaker 1: the end of this episode, that's our one hundred Wow
Speaker 1: Wow wow wow wow pretty wid Yeah. So the songs
Speaker 1: in this episode are Fire by Bruce Springsteen. A House
Speaker 1: Is Not at Home by Dion Warwick. B Backrock just
Speaker 1: recently passed away and one of the greatest songwriters of
Speaker 1: all time, and it felt nice to watch this episode
Speaker 1: and hear some of his music and this um one,
Speaker 1: Let's spelled to answer by Barbara full By Christina and
Speaker 1: Home from the Whiz. You know, wow, big episode. These
Speaker 1: are legends, legendary songs and songwriters and singers. Get We
Speaker 1: have Dion Warwick, Barbara Streiss and Bruce Springsteen, Dame and
Speaker 1: Bert Backreck in one episode. That's this is when we're
Speaker 1: starting to get like the bigger artists, the bigger songs,
Speaker 1: like the catalogs are just being kind of like given
Speaker 1: gifted to us a you know, alamadonna. Um let's get
Speaker 1: into it. This is a fun episode. Yeah, I really
Speaker 1: enjoyed this episode. Um So. The eppisode summary. First of all,
Speaker 1: everyone is feeling displaced from their homes in some way
Speaker 1: or another, whether metaphorically or physically. New directions. Finn, Jesse,
Speaker 1: Saint James, Mercedes and Kurt Will April Rhodes. So one
Speaker 1: of the main storylines is that Mercedes, Um and Kurt
Speaker 1: joined the Cheerios and Mercedes is asked by Sue in
Speaker 1: preparation for their big magazine interview where Sue is named
Speaker 1: coach of the past two thousand years, that Mercedes has
Speaker 1: to drop ten pounds. The whole Cheerios team has to
Speaker 1: lose pounds weight, but Mercedes has given an assignment of
Speaker 1: ten pounds, and so we start out with Sue saying
Speaker 1: that Mercedes, your chords have had more fantastic runs than
Speaker 1: a Kenyan track team, but that look will simply not
Speaker 1: do oh yeah, oh indeed, and then she says that
Speaker 1: she wants Mercedes to lose weight so she can be
Speaker 1: wearing a gender appropriate costume by the end of the week.
Speaker 1: When Tracy Pendergrass gets there for the interview, not great.
Speaker 1: So they're in the cafeteria and Mercedes is eating a
Speaker 1: salad and some grilled chicken and you know, waters, I think.
Speaker 1: Kurt says, that's what you're eating. You have a week
Speaker 1: to lose ten pounds. It's like having to lose one
Speaker 1: of my butt cheeks. And Kurt says, look, Mercedes, this
Speaker 1: is not Please, don't mess up our chance to finally
Speaker 1: fit in and be with the cool crowd. So Mercedes
Speaker 1: is feeling the stakes of this and not wanting to
Speaker 1: disappoint Kurt. So Mercedes then goes and asks Brittany and
Speaker 1: Becky and Santana how they stay so skinny and they
Speaker 1: share the master cletons. Do you remember that this cleans
Speaker 1: was like all the rage at that time. Kevin. We're like,
Speaker 1: you're whole Foods at January first of the new year,
Speaker 1: and they had like all of the things set out
Speaker 1: for pepper thing where you just drank that in water
Speaker 1: for a week. I had so many I think I
Speaker 1: was the only person not doing that. We did a
Speaker 1: lot of cleanses on set. Yeah. Um, and we see
Speaker 1: Quinn like kind of from a far sea Mercedes and like,
Speaker 1: you know, longingly, like knowing what she's going through. Um,
Speaker 1: So Mercedes is at this way in right, and she
Speaker 1: she gains two pounds and Sue is like, no, you
Speaker 1: have four days to lose the waiter. You're out and
Speaker 1: threatens her by saying, yeah, you have to do other
Speaker 1: thing like you like soon you'll be like like Becky
Speaker 1: has a way in as well. Right right, It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be like every other American teenaged girl and
Speaker 1: start hiding bags of bile and vomit around your parents'
Speaker 1: house like it's in your living your parents living room
Speaker 1: or something like that. Yeah, it's not not good, but
Speaker 1: this is one of my favorite things we ever did.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize it happened this soon oh, yes, season two.
Speaker 1: In my head, this is this is it? Well back nine. Honestly,
Speaker 1: the back nine kind of feels a season two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I was gonna say what I because we had
Speaker 1: such a big gap in real life between the first thirteen.
Speaker 1: In the back nine, the back nine feels like a
Speaker 1: completely different, Yes, experience, it does, it does. There was
Speaker 1: a time off, there was it steels separate. Okay, So
Speaker 1: we're in the cafeteria and Mercedes is with Tina and
Speaker 1: Artie and she is starving herself because obviously she has
Speaker 1: four days till these ten pounds, which is wild, and
Speaker 1: she starts hallucinating and she starts to see us as
Speaker 1: food and Amber gives such a wonderful performance in this
Speaker 1: whole episode. I was so excited for her, so proud
Speaker 1: of her. Um this was like her big storyline. I
Speaker 1: remember her really taking this super seriously and you know, really,
Speaker 1: you know, just doing doing the deed. She is amazing.
Speaker 1: So but I remember us coming out in these outfits
Speaker 1: and try to laugh at her and ruin her takes
Speaker 1: because she was, you know, she had to kind of
Speaker 1: be serious and this was so ridiculous that we looked
Speaker 1: like this. Kevin and It's one of those things where
Speaker 1: Paris is very serious. He can be fun and silly,
Speaker 1: but like, yeah, you know, Amber had a really serious
Speaker 1: thing to portray her and just don't screw this up.
Speaker 1: And you and I and Leah and John. I was
Speaker 1: sitting in that back room in these costumes looking a fool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and like we couldn't look at each other. So like
Speaker 1: I remember and this actual scene sitting around the table,
Speaker 1: you and I could not make eye contact with one another.
Speaker 1: We had to just like the only one we can
Speaker 1: stay in this is to look at Amber and just
Speaker 1: remember we have to give it to her and not
Speaker 1: mess this up. Lines. I'm literally a piece of cake.
Speaker 1: I also how cool this was because this person that
Speaker 1: had made costumes for like Katy Perry or something that's
Speaker 1: right and had to build it around your wheelchair. Yes,
Speaker 1: they had to get like three people to lift the
Speaker 1: piece of Like when the take was over, I couldn't
Speaker 1: just get up. I had like zero arms. It's so funny.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Oh god, it was one of my favorite
Speaker 1: things we ever did, truly. Yeah, Okay, so basically during
Speaker 1: all of this, we're just saying that we love her
Speaker 1: the way she is in these cleanses. People don't it
Speaker 1: doesn't work and you know, blah blah blah, and then
Speaker 1: she um she runs away and we see Leah and
Speaker 1: Croff in their ridiculous costumes. This is Groff's second episode also,
Speaker 1: and he's in a bird her and she passes out
Speaker 1: in the cafeteria and we so she ends up should
Speaker 1: we cut to her in the nurse's office, right, and
Speaker 1: such a sweet scene. I think the scene is beautiful, beautiful,
Speaker 1: And we haven't seen Quinn and Mercedes together either. It's
Speaker 1: like the budding relationship and friendship that they have. And
Speaker 1: Quinn tells her that she's like, eat the granilla bar.
Speaker 1: She's like, I'm not hungry, and she's like, yes, yes
Speaker 1: you are. I've been there. And then she says, M,
Speaker 1: did they start looking like food before you passed down?
Speaker 1: She's like, M, been there. And Quinn tells her that
Speaker 1: her relationship to food changed when she got pregnant because
Speaker 1: she's realizing she's doing everything she can to fuel her
Speaker 1: body for this little thing. Then why can't she do
Speaker 1: that for herself? And I thought that was really beautiful.
Speaker 1: I think that's an incredibly well written line. Yes, I've
Speaker 1: been thinking about that line all day because how that
Speaker 1: translates to a lot of us when we get cut
Speaker 1: up in fad diets and things about if you're willing
Speaker 1: to do this for somebody else and make sure everybody
Speaker 1: else is eating correctly, like why aren't we yeah doing
Speaker 1: that or caring about ourselves. It's one of those moments
Speaker 1: where we were just addressed as desserts and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you have Amber sitting there, Mercedes sitting
Speaker 1: there crying right talking about her body, and then Quinn
Speaker 1: saying yeah, like yeah, I get it, And here's why.
Speaker 1: It was a really powerful moment and one that because
Speaker 1: you know, I think Paris made a point of doing
Speaker 1: this in every episode to balance that out perfectly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: where you still believed both realities. Yeah, and like again,
Speaker 1: we're now tackling eating disorders, we're tackling kind of weight loss,
Speaker 1: we're tackling all of this. Like Quinn's line about saying
Speaker 1: like she's lucky because she's always been home in her
Speaker 1: body and don't not to let suit take that away
Speaker 1: from her. I mean, it was so beautiful and it
Speaker 1: really resonated with me because, like I obviously in this industry,
Speaker 1: like I've struggled with my body and just seeing yourself
Speaker 1: on camera every day it's like jarring, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: having Emma like my body, my body has changed my
Speaker 1: mentality in the fueling of my body and also like
Speaker 1: nutrition wise, like wanting to eat well, not for weight loss,
Speaker 1: but to eat to fuel myself so that like I
Speaker 1: can have I can live a long life. That's really
Speaker 1: like the way I look at it now, it's just
Speaker 1: so crazy but very existential. But um, it's really it
Speaker 1: was really beautifully done. As you said. Now we get
Speaker 1: to we're cutting, we're cutting a head a bit, but
Speaker 1: we're just getting through this whole Mercedes beautiful Mercedes storyline
Speaker 1: where Tracy Pendergrass shows up and Sue was expecting a woman,
Speaker 1: right and he shows up with the PEP rally and
Speaker 1: the interview and Mercedes switches up the plan and she
Speaker 1: decides to come out and take Quinn's advice and sing,
Speaker 1: you know, says, cherios aren't about you know, looking caught
Speaker 1: and you know, being cool, but like actually just really
Speaker 1: loving each other and loving ourselves and learning how to
Speaker 1: do that every day. So meanwhile, Sue's freaking out because
Speaker 1: Tracy Pendergrass said that this is going to be like
Speaker 1: a hard hitting expose, and then the number that she
Speaker 1: had planned doesn't happen. Mercedes comes out and god yeah
Speaker 1: and sings this number and gets the glee club and
Speaker 1: some fellow classmates to come up and sing with her
Speaker 1: and this, and then Amber does this beautiful one hundred number.
Speaker 1: Beautiful huh see what I did there? And I remember
Speaker 1: shooting this and just being so proud of Amber. I
Speaker 1: think we shot this towards the end of the episode,
Speaker 1: maybe that this at home, and just watching Amber kind
Speaker 1: of do this whole performance was really It's just fun
Speaker 1: to be able to watch your friends do things that
Speaker 1: like stretched them. And you know, Amber can wail and
Speaker 1: do sing about just about anything, but like to watch
Speaker 1: her actually act and hold this episode was like really beautiful. Yeah, tears,
Speaker 1: she was providing tears. She was providing tears, and I
Speaker 1: know she was nervous about that too, so um. And
Speaker 1: then we get to the office the next day where
Speaker 1: Tracy says she's going to continue this interview next the
Speaker 1: next day and she's office and you know, it says
Speaker 1: that he admitted that he hadn't liked Sue since in
Speaker 1: that minuting matter, and the fact that she called him
Speaker 1: rerun twice made him think that she was a little
Speaker 1: bit racist. Moving on and then yeah, and then she
Speaker 1: realizes he realizes that he was wrong, right, and says
Speaker 1: that seeing that performance and seeing how he's she's teaching
Speaker 1: her cheerios to be inclusive and positive about these things
Speaker 1: that are not always respected and thought positively of in
Speaker 1: that cheerio cheerio world. And she's like, well, yeah, m
Speaker 1: I did that on purpose. Yeah, And then we have
Speaker 1: this moment of her admitting that he was wrong to
Speaker 1: Mercedes about the cheerios, and we know the stakes of
Speaker 1: trying to fit in right, which is really nice. They
Speaker 1: have such a great friendship, do they really? Do? We
Speaker 1: fall in love with Marchine? So meanwhile, Sue has blocked
Speaker 1: out the entire auditorium just to I don't know, mess
Speaker 1: with Shoe because it's too cold outside her cheeros to
Speaker 1: be rehearsing. So she has a sign up sheet in
Speaker 1: her waistband and says that Will can't use the auditorium
Speaker 1: after he confronts her about it, and the whole week
Speaker 1: is reserved just for the cheerios taken away from their home.
Speaker 1: If you exactly displacing them. So when Will shares us
Speaker 1: with the Glee Club, Rachel recommends a sit in, Puck
Speaker 1: recommends that they torched the place, but mister Shoe takes
Speaker 1: upon himself to make a promise that he's going to
Speaker 1: find them a new home for the week. Shoe goes
Speaker 1: to the roller roller Rink, which in real life in
Speaker 1: La Moonlight Rollerway that we It's in every movie you see,
Speaker 1: every TV show you see. If there's all, that's the one.
Speaker 1: They have a great LGBT and Iron Wednesdays. You should
Speaker 1: go check it out. Yeah, it's great. I've been several times. Yes,
Speaker 1: um and lo and behold who's at the roller rink?
Speaker 1: Pulling focus on the main stage. But Kristen Chenno with
Speaker 1: aka April Rhodes And she's like, well, Schuster, I just
Speaker 1: had a sex stream about you, and then queues up
Speaker 1: a song Fire by Bruce Springsteen, hands him a mic
Speaker 1: that's bedazzled, bedazzled with flames, ready for the song, and
Speaker 1: they sing this great number. I would just like to
Speaker 1: point out again how good Christen Chenno is as a singer.
Speaker 1: I mean, I will say there are a lot of
Speaker 1: musical theater people I mean she has her master's an opera. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's classically trained who cannot do everything what she does,
Speaker 1: she can adapt to any style of song. She is
Speaker 1: singing on that Bruce Springsteen song, she cut out her
Speaker 1: vibrato entirely. Yeah, she's like Jesse Mahler. Yeah, she's just
Speaker 1: singing this like pop rock song. Yeah, she made it
Speaker 1: a pop song, but it's, you know, rock song. And
Speaker 1: it's just very very very very impressive. She sings so
Speaker 1: many different genres in this one episode, and she sings
Speaker 1: them differently each time. Yes, she does what is called
Speaker 1: for in the song she called. We call that versatility. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just so I'll never get over it because it's
Speaker 1: so hard to be able to do that. Yeah, she
Speaker 1: can do anything with her voice. Yeah, yeah, Plato. It's
Speaker 1: really crazy. And she's a great actress as well. Because
Speaker 1: we get into this scene where Will sees April and
Speaker 1: this like hero, I thought you were getting sober. She says,
Speaker 1: I was so chatted about so bring up and studying
Speaker 1: a new life that I had to stop at a
Speaker 1: bar and get a drink just to calm down. And
Speaker 1: then she lived at the bar for four months, right,
Speaker 1: and then she admits that she's actually running this roller
Speaker 1: rink because she's a new mistress of Buddy Leewwitz, who
Speaker 1: is a strip mall tycoon, and Wills like, oh, well
Speaker 1: we need I'm a temporary space for the glee club.
Speaker 1: And she's like, oh, bring him here, no big deal.
Speaker 1: And then Will tells April that he has to sublet
Speaker 1: his apartment because he's getting divorced. And this divorce, does
Speaker 1: that mean you're free to date? And by date I
Speaker 1: mean sleep with people, and by sleep with I mean
Speaker 1: have sex with people people like me. Kidding, not really,
Speaker 1: And so she's offering, it's so good, she's offering to
Speaker 1: sublet his place. And it's like, I'm gonna need to
Speaker 1: come see the funk Hua or fing fong whatever it's called. Oh,
Speaker 1: and so she is gonna weazle her way into going
Speaker 1: to his home. Then mister Shu was like, Hey, new directions.
Speaker 1: I got the roller rink and we're gonna go perform there.
Speaker 1: Rehearse there, right, And then Kurt addresses the glee club.
Speaker 1: He says, mister Shu has something to say, and he
Speaker 1: just says that we all need to find a sense
Speaker 1: of place and that everybody's feeling. He's kind of like
Speaker 1: naming it all, Like, you know, Finn is feeling upset
Speaker 1: that their their parents are dating and you know, um,
Speaker 1: well we'll get into that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and he
Speaker 1: breaks into the song. Well he goes through Brad and
Speaker 1: uh sings houses not at home? Do you actually just
Speaker 1: have the sheet music sitting there on the piano ready?
Speaker 1: But he knew, Yeah, that's how it works, say, and
Speaker 1: it's it's an uncomfortable performance. He's emotional, he's like working
Speaker 1: through things and Finn's like, what is happening? Right? But
Speaker 1: then which I forgot about, we cut to Finn singing
Speaker 1: in this number, Finn singing, his tradition of singing to
Speaker 1: enimate objects continues, and he somehow makes it work for
Speaker 1: him because God blessed Scory, like you you know, he
Speaker 1: can make anything work. But of course he had to
Speaker 1: sing to the chair and to the urn of his
Speaker 1: his late father. Um, it was weird. It was weirder
Speaker 1: than him singing to the ultrasound. Definitely, at least it
Speaker 1: was quick. It was really quick. No, no, yeah, I
Speaker 1: would also say I in this episode, I noticed a
Speaker 1: lot Corey's physicality and he was a twenty something year
Speaker 1: old man playing a sixteen year old right, and I
Speaker 1: feel like he does such a good job of embodying
Speaker 1: the physicality of like a teenager. Okay, Golden Retriever, I
Speaker 1: don't know how my body moves yet. Yeah, goofy, goofyman Coverston,
Speaker 1: You're right, Yes he didn't. He didn't quite inhabit his body,
Speaker 1: but Corey did so exactly. Finn didn't. All right, So
Speaker 1: we get to April. Okay, you take this, Kevin, because
Speaker 1: this is your favorite. This is maybe my favorite song
Speaker 1: ever in this show. I know nobody understands this. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's top three, I don't know, it might be number one.
Speaker 1: I love this number. I love it because I think
Speaker 1: it is such an excellent mashup and the arrangement of
Speaker 1: the song, the harmonies of this number are I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. And I will also
Speaker 1: say watching this um actual number in the show, Paris's
Speaker 1: music video directing fully comes in handy here. Yeah, because yes,
Speaker 1: the way this is so simple but yet choreographed so perfectly, Like,
Speaker 1: never did I ever think I would be so enthralled
Speaker 1: with people laying in bed belting for their lives. Yea
Speaker 1: and it's beautiful and how it cuts together. It's fully
Speaker 1: music video. This is absolutely someone who knows musicality and
Speaker 1: music video. Yes, that's all I kept thinking, I haven't
Speaker 1: but I haven't heard this song in a long time,
Speaker 1: like unlike you, And so I was reminded with a
Speaker 1: slap in the face with how good number. That's how
Speaker 1: good it is? Yeah, you get struck with it across
Speaker 1: the face. Yep, it is a masterclass. And I think
Speaker 1: this scene too, right before leading up to it, when
Speaker 1: April shows up at Will's house, it's like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: check it out, and he's like, you can sleep on
Speaker 1: the couch. I'm not really cool with this, but no
Speaker 1: funny business sleeping on the couch, and she's like dressed
Speaker 1: in this crazy outfit, bought her bag. She brings out
Speaker 1: a bottle of wine, and then it goes into this
Speaker 1: really obviously it's weird. They're singing to each other in
Speaker 1: the house. Whatever, well, right, we'll buy it. And then
Speaker 1: it's this really beautiful moment for both of them feeling
Speaker 1: displaced and this house. They're both around people, they're not
Speaker 1: that comfortable within this house, but lonely and how they
Speaker 1: can find It's also one of those things too, where
Speaker 1: this song the lyrics really don't apply to their situation,
Speaker 1: but the power of music, of how you can pull
Speaker 1: from a song what you need to to apply to
Speaker 1: your life is what's happening. And I just think, you know,
Speaker 1: Adam Andrews some crazy work on the arrangement. Yeah yeah
Speaker 1: it Um, Kristen and Matt just sounds so good together.
Speaker 1: I mean, two Broadway stars right there. Yeah, but that's
Speaker 1: like it doesn't necessarily sound like no, no, a musical
Speaker 1: theater song singing is you're right between? Yeah, it is
Speaker 1: somewhere between, and it is theatrical. It's over the top,
Speaker 1: but there you just put that song on. You just oh,
Speaker 1: that's so funny. I an't about watching the video at
Speaker 1: some point because I think that also will inform me
Speaker 1: in a different um anyway. Okay, so so after this
Speaker 1: beautiful number, that's one of three. Now, I know we
Speaker 1: can break it down if you want. The April tells well,
Speaker 1: Will says that um at the roller rank that they
Speaker 1: shouldn't a habit of sleeping in the bed together. And
Speaker 1: then Will says, what do you do in April? Like
Speaker 1: you deserve more than being someone's mistress and deserves to
Speaker 1: find happiness and hope, and you know he really has.
Speaker 1: I hoped for her. And so April tells Will that
Speaker 1: she's going to go break up with buddy. Is this
Speaker 1: where Chris got injured at the roller rink? By the way,
Speaker 1: everybody's explained his wrist or something. I think you're right.
Speaker 1: I think you're right. The new directions are not rehearsing,
Speaker 1: they're just skating. Well, we're trying to stay alive. Yea,
Speaker 1: his reality and I at least had big wheels. I
Speaker 1: had you to hold on to, whereas other people didn't.
Speaker 1: And do you see Harry go down? I don't think
Speaker 1: that was fake. I was very appreciative that I got
Speaker 1: to sit in the chair. I hate roller skating because
Speaker 1: I'm so bad. It's hard. It's hard, and I was
Speaker 1: scared um, but I was laughing because it was such
Speaker 1: a It was a fun day for us because we
Speaker 1: get we weren't had no lines. It just got to
Speaker 1: like be there and actidally and do some physical comedy
Speaker 1: and not die. I love too that this was sort
Speaker 1: of Groff's introduction to being part of the league club.
Speaker 1: We're like welcome to not having any lines, and you're
Speaker 1: just an all DC. You're just hanging You're just saying um.
Speaker 1: So okay. So then we cut to April showing up
Speaker 1: at Will's office and she's like what. He's like, what
Speaker 1: you're doing here? And she she told him that she
Speaker 1: broke up with Buddy or she and then and then
Speaker 1: he had a stroke in front of her and died.
Speaker 1: And she's rich. She got two million dollars. So she's
Speaker 1: sobering up and heading to the Broadway where she's gonna
Speaker 1: Mount Mount, the first all white Productional I didn't know
Speaker 1: April was racist? Is the turn of events, and the
Speaker 1: turn a dark turn of events. April is not it's
Speaker 1: not good. It's not. Um. But but in in in
Speaker 1: April Roses roses defense and I'm not defending her. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying she is offensive. Yeah, there are character is offensive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but again, I don't think that would fly. We wouldn't
Speaker 1: be making that joke now, No, no, because it's not
Speaker 1: a joke. Um. And then and then she's not a
Speaker 1: Rachel's I did you tell them that? Um? April Rhodes
Speaker 1: has bought the auditorium, she has bought our home back
Speaker 1: for us, and it is named the April Rhodes Civic Pavilion.
Speaker 1: Um fun fact, I think Kristen actually has a theater
Speaker 1: named after her in her hometown or surrounding town nearby.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Um, and then we'll get to that last
Speaker 1: number yeah later, but um. So the other storyline happening
Speaker 1: in this is the good old storyline Kurt and love
Speaker 1: with Fenn thing. So what happens is Kurt Kurt rolls
Speaker 1: up to Finn after leagu club one day and ask
Speaker 1: for advice for redecorating his bedroom and Finn's like, I
Speaker 1: have no idea, like why are you asking me? In
Speaker 1: like points to something. Meanwhile, Finn's mom, Carol, is all
Speaker 1: of a sudden selling Finn's late dad's stuff, and when
Speaker 1: it comes to recliner, Finn freaks out and it's like, no,
Speaker 1: that's not for sale, Like why are you doing this?
Speaker 1: This is dad's chair. It's the only picture I have
Speaker 1: of him with me. He's holding me in that chair,
Speaker 1: and Carol's like, it's not it's a chair, it's not him.
Speaker 1: And then Carol says like, look, also, Carol's dressed completely differently.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, she's she's no longer in the
Speaker 1: acid washed jeans and best and Carol's says, I've been
Speaker 1: seeing someone and I'm in love and the person I've
Speaker 1: been seeing is Kurt's dad Bert, and so Finn then
Speaker 1: confronts Kurt about it, and it's like, what's going on
Speaker 1: with our parents? And then Kurt says, like, didn't you
Speaker 1: notice anything's different about your mom her look? Before? You know,
Speaker 1: like they'll be living together and redecorating their room together,
Speaker 1: hence why he was asking this. So Kurt has been
Speaker 1: planning this whole thing as a way to, you know,
Speaker 1: get closer to Finn, Jenna, do you I don't know
Speaker 1: what I was doing, But I don't remember Kurt being
Speaker 1: in love with Finn being such a huge storyline. I
Speaker 1: don't know why I have no recollection of this. Yes,
Speaker 1: I agree, it does become short lived because of Kurt,
Speaker 1: Carol and Burt, I think, and it no longer flies
Speaker 1: when like their parents are actually together. But you're right,
Speaker 1: I don't quite And maybe it's because they were just
Speaker 1: shooting so much off to the side. We were never
Speaker 1: really there, like we weren't at the breadsticks scene, like
Speaker 1: we didn't watch these things until we saw them when
Speaker 1: the episodes came out, So maybe it's just because we
Speaker 1: weren't part of it. I think I also like thought
Speaker 1: this whole Kurt, I mean this Carol and oh god, Carol, Kurt, Bert,
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know Carol and Burt think
Speaker 1: happened later in season two. Agreed also, but they they
Speaker 1: do live on So that's why I think we set
Speaker 1: you know, Burton Carroll quite a bit. So. But yes,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of this feels like the back
Speaker 1: nine feels like a far off dream from the first
Speaker 1: thirteen day we did. Um and so mad. Yeah, He's like,
Speaker 1: I like my house, I'm not moving, I'm not selling
Speaker 1: that damn chair. And and Finn's very resistant towards all
Speaker 1: of this, but they obviously he's a kid, so he
Speaker 1: has to go do what his mom says. And they
Speaker 1: go to breadsticks on a double date with Kurt, Finn
Speaker 1: and their parents, and we were moving to bread sticks.
Speaker 1: So glad I didn't have to do breadsticks. Um, Finn says,
Speaker 1: you know, makes this off kind of like, oh, we're
Speaker 1: not a family, and you know, in response to like
Speaker 1: I think Bert saying something, and and then Burt and
Speaker 1: Finn like Bert wins Finn over with his charm talking
Speaker 1: about sports, and you can see that like Kurt is
Speaker 1: commenting on Carol's clothes and you know, the thing that
Speaker 1: they kind of bonded over and her makeover, and now
Speaker 1: Kurt's very hurt about Finn and Bert getting along, and
Speaker 1: we see this beautiful scene between Kurt and Burt where
Speaker 1: he's like, I feel, you know, I left felt left
Speaker 1: out and sad, and Bert's like, of course, I love
Speaker 1: you like you're my son. Like we don't try to
Speaker 1: change each other. That's our relationship. They have a very
Speaker 1: open and communicative, communicative relationship, as we've learned, and a
Speaker 1: little guy talk with some other kid isn't going to
Speaker 1: change that. And then Kurt says guy talk, I'm a guy,
Speaker 1: and Bert says, you know what I think. But I
Speaker 1: thought that was really powerful though, like Kurt's saying like,
Speaker 1: I'm a guy. Yeah. I think it's important that these
Speaker 1: scenes are a little messy, like yeah, yeah, not everybody's
Speaker 1: saying the perfect thing all the time, but there's an understanding.
Speaker 1: Really their intentions are in the right place. And then
Speaker 1: Bert says, suddenly, I'm not the guy who sat through
Speaker 1: River Dance three in a row. It's so cute though,
Speaker 1: because they do think the best of each other most
Speaker 1: of the time, and they do bring out like that
Speaker 1: that really deep good part of each other. So and
Speaker 1: that's why I think it's very sweet. Um. And then
Speaker 1: Kurt's like, maybe it is too soon that you started dating,
Speaker 1: and Bert says it's been eight years. And then the
Speaker 1: really kind of questions, which because he can see right
Speaker 1: through his son obviously in question why he set him
Speaker 1: up with Carol in the first place. That was good.
Speaker 1: Wasn't it to make me happy? M hmm. Kurt tells
Speaker 1: Finn that, mmmm, this isn't gonna work. We need to
Speaker 1: break them up, and Finn could tell it hurt. Kurt
Speaker 1: admits he doesn't like seeing his mom move on either,
Speaker 1: and Finn agrees, and they shake hands and like, okay,
Speaker 1: let's put an end to them. Right Then Finn threatens
Speaker 1: to throw his dad's ashes down the toilet. He takes
Speaker 1: the ash. He's like, oh, I'm just gonna like I
Speaker 1: can do this too. You've been doing it, and so
Speaker 1: it's great. Yeah, I think Carol, oh my gosh, just roam, gosh,
Speaker 1: just really going says that they can do what they've
Speaker 1: been doing for the past ten years, which is pretending,
Speaker 1: and she reveals she hasn't felt this way about anyone
Speaker 1: since his dad and he's being selfish, tells Finn that
Speaker 1: she loves him and that they need a family and
Speaker 1: a home. And I thought it was really powerful when Finn,
Speaker 1: you know, says this isn't what dad would want, and
Speaker 1: she's like, you don't know him, and that's tough, Like
Speaker 1: it's it's still crazy to me. This is the same show,
Speaker 1: yeah that you know, not that we're dressed in cupcakes
Speaker 1: and cupcakes and things, and a really powerful, I think
Speaker 1: hard to articulate thing that people go through all the time. Well,
Speaker 1: that's dealing with the parents that's passed away at an
Speaker 1: early age, right. I think that's really what's so powerful
Speaker 1: Luckley though, is like you hit these really hard hitting
Speaker 1: situations and it's you know, like social issues and um,
Speaker 1: you know, eating disorders and you know, loss and grief
Speaker 1: and and then you break into song into Madonna and
Speaker 1: Bruce Springsteen and like, no studio these days if you
Speaker 1: pitched a show like that, unless you're Ran Reffe would
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, I get that, Like you'd be like,
Speaker 1: that's two different shows, right. I think even then they
Speaker 1: were like Ryan being like believe me, no. Yes. So
Speaker 1: the storyline starts to wrap up when Bert all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, is at Finn's house and they have this
Speaker 1: man to man in the kitchen and it's very tense
Speaker 1: and they're both like I have a lot to say.
Speaker 1: I have a lot to say, and m Bert's like,
Speaker 1: well I don't have that much to say, so I'll start.
Speaker 1: And he's like, I will never hurt your mom. I
Speaker 1: love her. Your dad was a hero. I would like
Speaker 1: to be a hero for your mom as long as
Speaker 1: she wants me to be. Michael Malley Man, Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: just there's something beautiful about the simplicity with Romy and
Speaker 1: Mike doing these scenes where it's let me just let
Speaker 1: me just say these words because you know they're not
Speaker 1: doing some huge, um extravagant let me show you how
Speaker 1: good of an actor I am. They're good because it's
Speaker 1: true how they're saying it. Yeah. So then Finn just
Speaker 1: sort of wraps it up. He's like, oh, okay, well
Speaker 1: I was just gonna ask if you want to watch
Speaker 1: a game. Yeah. I mean he hears it, he doesn't
Speaker 1: have to admit it. But he hears, you know, Burt
Speaker 1: in what he says, and and then um, you know
Speaker 1: they He's like, no, you wait, you can sit here
Speaker 1: in the chair. He moves. The scene is almost completely perfect,
Speaker 1: almost and then almost too Kurt standing outside the window.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised wasn't raining on the on the window raining? Yes, right,
Speaker 1: Kurt standing at Finn's house, crying like he might as
Speaker 1: well have been an adjacent mask, like what what is
Speaker 1: what is happening? Why? That like sweet moment, and then
Speaker 1: it just pans to him in this gigantic windows. Very
Speaker 1: do you not see him? He's very funny. It's very funny.
Speaker 1: It's so creepy. It's so creepy. So we get to
Speaker 1: the final moment of this episode is us in the
Speaker 1: auditorium behind Chris and Chennewith where she sings home in
Speaker 1: the new April World Civic Pavilion. That's right, and she
Speaker 1: comes on in this beautiful gown. Now she's rich done jewels,
Speaker 1: and we're all we're all her choir, which happily we are,
Speaker 1: you know, swaying and singing with her in her backup
Speaker 1: singers that beautiful scrim lifts and you see this beautiful
Speaker 1: clouded sky in the background that is lit beautifully. It
Speaker 1: look stunning. I think it looks so good. Are you
Speaker 1: just it makes me uncomfortable having like a white person
Speaker 1: sing this song right right? It feels weird, right it's
Speaker 1: it's so beautifully done. And I wasn't even thinking of that.
Speaker 1: Thank you for that? Um right. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm I don't but I I
Speaker 1: mean so yeah, Okay. When I think of this, I
Speaker 1: think of Amber at the White House and Michelle Obama
Speaker 1: singing this song. It's an incredibly written song. Are the
Speaker 1: Wiz is incredible? This is an incredible song, right, Um?
Speaker 1: But it just feels it feels so fair enough, strange,
Speaker 1: fair enough? Um but I do love this song. Also,
Speaker 1: if anyone hasn't seen Jasmine Sullivan singing this song on
Speaker 1: YouTube at eleven years old in the A Whiz production
Speaker 1: of her at her school, go look it up. Have
Speaker 1: you seen it, Jenna? No, but I saw you storied
Speaker 1: about it. I watch it monthly. O Jasmine Sullivan at
Speaker 1: eleven years old done. It's unbelievable. I don't understand. But
Speaker 1: she's a prodigy. Obviously, it was a prodigy like I
Speaker 1: just whatever anyway, Okay, that's home. That Okay, let's do
Speaker 1: it so cringe moments aka special shout out to Paris
Speaker 1: for Auchiese. This episode, there's a couple lines. I mean,
Speaker 1: I would say the whole mounting and all white production
Speaker 1: of the Whiz, right. I think that was the one.
Speaker 1: Not a great look. I think the um the line
Speaker 1: with Becky earlier in the episode about vombiting and having
Speaker 1: an eating disorder, it's not great, you know. I think
Speaker 1: having Mercedes lose weight there's great things. Well, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean her Sue talking about, you know, Becky gonna be
Speaker 1: you know, a volimic. It's it's like, we're not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're not. That's not really how we handle things anymore. Um.
Speaker 1: Been singing to the chair? Oh did you say that one? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That's that's a good one. That's the one. UM. Worse
Speaker 1: dance move. Um, I don't know, And I don't think.
Speaker 1: There wasn't a lot of dancing, right. We weren't a
Speaker 1: lot of group numbers either, So no, okay, UM, I
Speaker 1: think maybe singing to the Urn still counts in that
Speaker 1: category as well. M M. Best song home, but now
Speaker 1: you made me rethink it. No, because the song is
Speaker 1: good and christ and Chenowitz is but beautiful. Also, I mean,
Speaker 1: like anything ever sing is obviously is wins. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously I'm going to pick my favorite number of all
Speaker 1: the time. Oh, I have been embarrassing things to admit. Yes,
Speaker 1: I had never heard the song home before we filmed
Speaker 1: this episode. Oh no, I feel like there's a lot
Speaker 1: of edumicating happening here. Well I must have. I had
Speaker 1: seen the win, so I must have, but I didn't
Speaker 1: know it, like it was not on my radar sort
Speaker 1: of thing. Fair enough, Yeah, best performance by a prop,
Speaker 1: the arn, the arned, the arn is good. I also
Speaker 1: have to say the bedazzled nikes really stood out to me.
Speaker 1: They were beautiful. They reminded me of like of course
Speaker 1: Christens on TOURZ. Yeah. Okay, and then the best line. Okay,
Speaker 1: So in the last last episode, I thought the line
Speaker 1: about the you know curtain Mercedes having their own Bravo
Speaker 1: show was in Madonna, but it's actually in this episode.
Speaker 1: How do you guys not have your own Bravo show? Say? Um,
Speaker 1: what else is there, Kevin? What there's a I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna rattle off a couple of incredible ones Britney saying
Speaker 1: I think my cat is reading my diary. It's a
Speaker 1: good one. Um Puck mouthing, defend you're gay, oh Bert
Speaker 1: saying I hate Duke like a hate the Nazis. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think is absolutely incredible. Yea, and then Kurt saying
Speaker 1: I feel like the guy who set up Liza David guest.
Speaker 1: You know it's very niche and specific, but that's right. Delicious,
Speaker 1: delicious yummy. Okay. So Jenna, um shit we found on
Speaker 1: the tiktoks this week, tell me um this incredible video.
Speaker 1: I just it's how Glee would sound in real life.
Speaker 1: Glee thing posted it, okay, And it's one of those
Speaker 1: videos where you just you have random clips of the
Speaker 1: show and then you have the real sounds. It's silent,
Speaker 1: basically like it's like splashes in the pool. No, it's
Speaker 1: it's very good. You have pulled it up and watch
Speaker 1: this thing. I'm pulling it up like some music playing
Speaker 1: in the hallway. You have no because like kids randomly
Speaker 1: seeing in the hallway just like yeah, kids talking around
Speaker 1: them like what is happening? No, this is so awkward.
Speaker 1: It's so good. Yeah, you have to the sneakers, you
Speaker 1: guys got We'll go to the Glee thing TikTok um
Speaker 1: and watch it. How Glee that sounded real life. It's excellent.
Speaker 1: Thank you for tagging us in that. It's it's a
Speaker 1: minute of pure joy. Very good, very very good. It's
Speaker 1: very funny. Well that's home. That is home. Um you guys,
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Speaker 1: a good run. I can't wait to talk about this episode. Well,
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